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In alcohol brown or drab brown, whitish below. Narrow gray 

 white line from lower eye edge to gill opening then down to lower 

 pectoral base. Iris gray or light brown. Fins all pale brownish, 

 with oblique brown lines on soft dorsal and anal, and transverse on 

 caudal. 



East Indies and Phillipines. This species differs from Anthias 

 squamipinnis in its coloration and broader or less forked caudal fin, 

 fewer filaments to the fins and in the presence of a light line, not a 

 broad band, obliquely down and back from the lower eye edge to the 

 pectoral base. It is somewhat like Anthias cooperi Regan, but that 

 species is figured with scaleless fins and described with 47 to 49 scales 

 in its lateral line. 15 While it is true our examples do not agree with 

 Bleeker's figure in that he shows the light line from the eye across 

 the cheek to the breast, and not on the pectoral base, in its structural 

 characters it does not seem to differ. But then Bleeker's account 

 is not in agreement with his figure, and though he mentions but one 

 example as 117 mm. long he gives the soft dorsal rays as 16 or 17 

 and his figure shows 18. Anthias elongatus Franz is very similar, if 

 not synonymous, differing chiefly in its uniform red color. As Pseu- 

 danthias elongatus Tanaka describes it with 8 + 20 gill rakers on an 

 example 140 mm., which length is greatly in excess of any of our 

 materials. 16 



2069 to 2072 (D. 5136). Jolo. February 14, 1908. Length 103 to 105 mm. 



18563, 18564 (1913). Malanipa Island, east of Zamboanga. September 8, 1909. 

 Length 107 to 108 mm. 



21978. Murcielagos Bay, Mindanao. August 9, 1909. Length 53 mm. 



Sixteen examples. Port Maricaban. July 21, 1908. Length 30 to 73 mm. 



11499. Sulade Island, vicinity Jolo. September 17, 1909. Length 99 mm. 



16032. Sulade Island. September 18, 1909. Length 88 mm. 



(1738, 1739) (D. 5478). Tacbuc Point, Leyte. July 29, 1909. Length 81 to 

 120 mm. 7 examples. 



16245, 16246, 16248, 16251, 16252, 16254. Teomabal Island, vicinity Jolo. 

 Length 85 to 109 mm. 



6431. West coast Palaui Island. November 18, 1908. Length 79 mm. 



6904, 6905. Danawan and Si Amil Islands, vicinity Darvel Bay, Borneo. Sep- 

 tember 26, 1909. Length 89 to 125 mm. (1999, 2000.) 



12780. Limbe Strait, Celebes. November 10,1909. Length 59 to 84 mm. 8 

 examples. 



Four examples. Limbe Strait. November 11, 1909. Length 62 to 75 mm. 



12181, 12182, 13828, 13829. Powati Harbor, Makyan Island. November 28, 

 1909. Length 85 to 101 mm. (2080). 6 examples. 



ANTHIAS ALBOFASCIATLS, new species'? 



Depth 3K; head 334, width V/ s . Snout 4% in head from snout 

 tip; eye 3, little greater than snout or interorbital; maxillary reaches 



15 Fauna Qeogr. Maldive Laccadive Archipelago, vol. 1, pt. 3, 1902, p. 273. Huddumati; Trans. Linn. 

 Soc. London, ser. 2, vol. 12, Zool., 1908, p. 222, pi. 24, fig. 4 (type; Cargados Carajos; Kurracbee). 



16 Fig. Discript. Fishes of Japan, vol. 31, June 27, 1921, p. 580, pi. 141, fig. 401; vol. 32, July 1, 1922, p. 583 

 (Tokyo). 



17 albus, white; fascia, band. 



